Zondervan's Bible Dictionary suggests that the King James translation misconstrues this action given the fact that a nomadic, desert-dwelling tribe like the Jews would have found completing this action difficult, although medieval requirements for the equipment used in this action and the remains for rooms in which it was performed shows that the English word used is the accurate one  Most of the requirements for who must undergo this ritual is found in the fifteenth book of Leviticus, although Exodus 40 states that kohenim must when first consecrated, and Numbers 19 adds the detail that they must do this after sacrificing a heifer, as must any who eats an animal that dies naturally. Performed by grave diggers, those with skin ailments, and by non-pregnant women at least twelve times a year, for 10 points name this ritual described by the Hebrew word mikveh, the way by which one removes 
Zondervan's Bible Dictionary suggests that the King James translation misconstrues this action given the fact that a nomadic, desert-dwelling tribe like the Jews would have found completing this action difficult, although medieval requirements for the equipment used in this action and the remains for rooms in which it was performed shows that the English word used is the accurate one  Most of the requirements for who must undergo this ritual is found in the fifteenth book of Leviticus, although Exodus 40 states that kohenim must when first consecrated, and Numbers 19 adds the detail that they must do this after sacrificing a heifer, as must any who eats an animal that dies naturally. Performed by grave diggers, those with skin ailments, and by non-pregnant women at least twelve times a year, for 10 points name this ritual described by the Hebrew word mikveh, the way by which one removes uncleanness.
Zondervan's Bible Dictionary suggests that the King James translation misconstrues this action given the fact that a nomadic, desert-dwelling tribe like the Jews would have found completing this action difficult, although medieval requirements for the equipment used in this action and the remains for rooms in which it was performed shows that the English word used is the accurate one  Most of the requirements for who must undergo this ritual is found in the fifteenth book of Leviticus, although Exodus 40 states that kohenim must when first consecrated, and Numbers 19 adds the detail that they must do this after sacrificing a heifer, as must any who eats an animal that dies naturally.
{bathing} (accept {mikveh} before the word is read, as {well} as reasonable equivalents)